Two osprey chicks were in trouble when their nest tower collapsed near the Weymouth Back River. Here's how it all played out.

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Explorer Alan Chambers is on a mission to uncover the spread of microplastics — and he was stunned by what he found in ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: Even with all the recent — and deserved — hurrahs with the opening of the new gates at Asheville Regional Airport, ...

The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers recently mapped what they say ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

In 1957, a team of Kiwis led by Sir Edmund Hillary undertook an extraordinary journey across Antarctica as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, famously utilizing three small ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.

Are people on the South Pole walking upside down from the rest of the world? – Ralph P., U.S.

If they had superhero vision, an astronaut would see the people at the South Pole and North Pole standing upside down from each other. And a person at the equator would look like they were ...